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Tue 05 Sep 2023 10:05 am - Jerusalem Time
Smotrich and Ben Gvir light matches
This time, the prisoners movement is on the agenda of Itamar Ben Gvir, after he issued a decision regulating the visits of prisoners once in two months, as well as rationing the "canteen" purchases and meals provided to the prisoners. The tightening policy pursued by the extremist Ben Gvir is inconsistent with international law related to the rights of prisoners. It was remarkable the statement of the Israeli National Security Council when it asked the government and all relevant parties not to deal with the decision of the Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, to reduce visits to the families of Palestinian prisoners, once every two months instead of once a month. Former Israel Police Commissioner Shlomo Ahronshki said last Saturday that National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir is a person who sets fires wherever he goes.
The dimensions of the event, represented in the enactment of arbitrary laws against the prisoners, go beyond their morale. If we go back in time, we will find more arbitrary measures against the prisoners than today, and despite that, the prisoners withstood under the sticks of the jailer and his brutal methods of extracting confessions from them. The path that follows today, Ben Gvir and others have to suffocate the Palestinians inside prisons. It is nothing but a deficiency complex for this extremist Minister of Internal Security in the occupation government. Ben Gvir had nothing to offer through which he could eliminate the pride of the Palestinian people other than these practices that do not discourage the Palestinian from his right to defend his usurped land and sanctities.
There were similar observatories of Zionist extremism. The frequent visits of religious Zionists to Al-Aqsa Mosque, led by the Minister of Internal Security, is another story in the agenda of Zionist religious extremism. Hundreds of incursions into Al-Aqsa within a year, and tens of thousands of settlers who stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, is nothing but paving the way Towards a religious war, the aim of which is to hasten the exodus of the Christian according to their belief. Things are moving towards the unknown. A racist fascist government is making its way in the middle of a dark world. He does not care what this handful of settlers are doing in the sanctuaries and against the captive movement inside the prisons of Zionist oppression. He does not care. This hypocritical world, with what the so-called youth of the hills are doing day and night against defenseless Palestinians while they are safe in their homes, on the roads and olive groves, is a war against stones, people and trees.
Despite the world's insistence on stopping settlements, this file was entrusted to the largest extremist, Yiselel Smotrich. Smotrich will establish a "Settlement Department" within the Ministry of Defense and put at its head the former head of the Settlement Council for the Binyamin area (the area between Ramallah and Nablus). The department is responsible for organizing everything related to settlements, whether in terms of expansion on the land, or in terms of implementing the "equal citizenship" project, which aims to improve civil and administrative services for settlers to equate them with Israeli citizens inside Israel. The religious Zionist party is committed to settling all settlements and removing construction restrictions in the settlements. He emphasized that "things in this region should be managed like any other region in Israel.
From the foregoing, it appears that there is agreement between Ben Gvir and Smotrich regarding the Israelization of the West Bank and its transformation into a Zionist entity. Each of them has its own program in the end, that aims to achieve the goal related to increasing the number of settlers in the West Bank to one million settlers, during the next five years, and this requires Zionist religious extremism at a very high level, and this is what we are seeing today through the increases in settlement units and the release of freedom for the hilltop youth, who are killing Palestinians as well as narrowing the means of life for prisoners.
The international system is not a single system with one face, but rather a multifaceted system.
It is something like the genetic components of a person that are reflected on the surface in facial features, skin color, hair color and nature. Israel has always been detonating its bombs in the face of the Palestinian people in front of the world. What we are used to is the policy of double standards, which is one of the worst sins of the human mind, which claims to be civilized.
In any case, the rights of prisoners guaranteed by international institutions cannot be ignored. That is why we await the response of the countries of the world regarding Ben Gvir's law, depriving Palestinian prisoners of family visits every two months. The question is, can international institutions dissuade Ben Gvir from the decision to reduce prisoner visits? We are waiting for what they will do. It will have to intervene to dissuade Ben Gvir and others from their crimes against the Palestinian people.
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